In an effort to revive the international nuclear deal with Iran, Russia has discussed a possible interim agreement with Iran in recent weeks that would involve limited sanctions relief in return for reimposing some restrictions on Tehran’s nuclear program.
, according to two U.S. officials, one congressional official, one former U.S. official and four other people familiar with the discussions.
A senior Biden administration official said an interim “arrangement” is not under serious discussion. Negotiations in Vienna have been complicated by Iran’s insistence that it would not hold direct talks with U.S. officials. Instead, the Americans have had to communicate with their Iranian counterparts via European diplomats. The Biden administration has said Iran’s stance has slowed down the discussions and it has urged Tehran to reconsider its position.
U.S. officials say major differences remain in negotiations on returning to the 2015 nuclear deal and that there’s little time left before Iran’s nuclear program advances to a point where Tehran would have enough fissile material to build an atomic bomb. An interim deal could slow down Iran’s nuclear program while giving negotiators more time to broker a full return to the 2015 agreement.
Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and other GOP lawmakersa letter last year to the administration arguing that even a return to the 2015 nuclear deal would require congressional approval. In the years since former President Donald Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions, Tehran has steadily expanded its nuclear program and violated restrictions on uranium enrichment and other nuclear work under the agreement. When the 2015 nuclear deal went into effect, Iran’s so-called “breakout time” — how much time it needed to have a bomb’s worth of fissile material — was greater than one year.
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